Libya: Teacher shot dead while jogging
Tripoli: Security for foreign instructors was increased after an American teacher was shot dead while jogging in Benghazi, amid fears that the death was not an isolated attack but rather one of an increasing number of targeted killings by Islamic militants or other gunmen with a strong presence in the volatile eastern Libyan city. Ronald Thomas Smith II’s body was found near the residential compound that housed him and other Benghazi International School teachers in an upscale neighbourhood. He had been at school in the morning but went home to change his clothes and go jogging at midday, according to the school’s director Adel Al Mansouri. The area is also the site of the US diplomatic mission, where the US ambassador and three other Americans were killed last year. The United States, viewed by many Libyans as a protector who led Nato airstrikes that helped rebels oust dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has nonetheless become an enemy to militants who have flour